- Australia: “Body in suitcase” turns out to be lifelike doll
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Australian police called in to investigate a body found in a suitcase have concluded that the ‘victim’ was in fact a lifelike doll. The suitcase was discovered by two men on the side of a road near the small village of Oallen, about 230km (143 miles) south-west of Sydney. On Monday, police announced a murder investigation, sparking intense interest in the case but backtracked hours later, saying forensic testing had proved the contents were not human. The contents in the suitcase were ‘mistaken for a human originally, so they are very realistic in terms of looking like human remains,’ said Supt Linda Bradbury from the Hume Police District. ‘But we’ve confirmed by other means that they are not.’ The doll was wearing clothing, had hair and a nose piercing, police said, adding that ‘the item also had markings that resembled bruises and grazes’.” (08/10/26)
- Oman: Regime says grounded tanker oil spill covers 400 square km
Source: Reuters
“Leaking crude oil from a tanker grounded off a nature reserve in Oman has created a slick covering almost 400 square kilometres, the country’s government said on Monday. The Caroline Bezengi is loaded with close to one million barrels of Russian oil bound for Asia and first reported difficulties on June 8 off Yemen, with two maritime security sources saying initial assessments indicated a blast had occurred onboard. No party has taken responsibility for attacking the vessel. Oman, in its first public disclosure on the environmental impact, said on Monday it was seeking to tackle the oil leak near the Hallaniyat Islands.” (08/10/26)
- Trump admits “contractor error” on Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
Source: USA Today
“For the first time, President Donald Trump admitted there was a construction error on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which is seeing another round of costly renovations. The initial construction cost more than $16 million, but the iconic Washington DC attraction had to be drained again after the Fourth of July due to peeling of the American-flag-blue liner that Trump ordered. He blamed ‘vandals’ on the issues the pool has seen, but after numerous people were accused of damaging the pool, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia dropped all of their charges. … ‘As with many jobs, there was also some contractor error done by rushing the job for a July 4th opening, but it was a very small area of this massive Pool, and was relatively inconsequential,’ he wrote. Despite no video evidence pointing toward vandalism, Trump stopped short of placing all of the blame on contractors.” (08/10/26)
- DC: Trump’s law-and-order blitz marks one year with eye-popping haul of suspects
Source: Fox News
“The Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force will mark its first anniversary Tuesday after making more than 16,000 arrests since its launch, Fox News Digital has learned exclusively, as the Trump administration points to the results of its sweeping crackdown on violent crime in the nation’s capital. ‘Under President Trump’s leadership, the Department of Justice and our law enforcement partners have delivered extraordinary results in our nation’s capital. More than 16,000 arrests, thousands of illegal drugs and firearms taken off the streets, and dangerous violent offenders brought to justice mean safer neighborhoods and lives protected,’ said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. ‘We will not relent until every community in Washington, D.C., is safe.’ The task force launched Aug. 11, 2025, bringing federal, state and local law enforcement together after Trump declared a crime emergency in Washington, D.C. Trump also deployed National Guard troops, drawing criticism from Democratic officials.” (08/10/26)
- Colombia: 7.4 magnitude earthquake kills at least 20
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake has struck western Colombia and neighbouring countries, prompting widespread evacuations. The earthquake struck on Monday near the municipality of San Jose del Palmar in Colombia’s Choco region, about 400km (250 miles) west of the capital, Bogota, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Colombia’s geological service. Colombia had initially put its magnitude at 6.6 on the Richter scale. … The mayor of Pereira, Colombia, said that 18 people had died there, according to Reuters. Two people are dead in Manizales, the Associated Press reported.” (08/10/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/10/7-4-magnitude-earthquake-hits-colombia-killing-at-least-20
- UK: Regime road pirates steal record $10 million worth of cars in one weekend
Source: CBS News
“London police said Monday they had [stolen] a record $10 million worth of supercars between Friday and Sunday in an operation aimed at curbing antisocial driving. Officers from London’s Metropolitan Police [stole] a total of 90 vehicles across popular affluent London neighborhoods such as Hyde Park, Kensington and Chelsea, marking the highest value and number of cars [stolen] since they launched an operation to crack down on antisocial driving five years ago. Authorities in England consider antisocial driving to include causing unnecessary noise pollution, street racing and cruising in a convoy, among other types of public nuisance. … This year, police have been given the power to [steal] vehicles involved in antisocial behavior rather than giving motorists a warning, the Met Police said in a statement.” (08/10/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/london-police-supercar-ferrari-seize-impound/
- The Socialist Surge Revives Failed and Hateful Ideas
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille“As democratic socialists in general and the DSA in particular take over the Democratic Party, it’s worth examining the positions they take, the enemies they pick, and who supports them to see what they have in store for us as they seek to remake the country. … Given that the rise of the DSA is likely rooted in disillusionment and resentment, it may be a losing proposition to point out that socialism’s nostrums are nonsense. Still, we need to emphasize that free-market [sic] capitalism is good and contributes to liberty and prosperity while socialism does the opposite.” (08/10/26)
https://reason.com/2026/08/10/the-socialist-surge-revives-failed-and-hateful-ideas/
- Eurotrash and Holy Water
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders“It’s called the Fourth Political Theory (4PT for short). It’s gotten the Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin two major fans among throngs of minor ones. The first is Vladimir Putin. The second is Tucker Carlson. Each, in his own way, is important. But together, the three make for a subversive head-heart-gut triad: Dugin the thinker, Carlson the relator, and Putin the muscle. Much like the social justice left with its beachhead in the academy, these three are propagating their own form of ideological imperialism online. But don’t call it right-wing. Like most positions these days, 4PT defies a linear spectrum, despite the parrots of the progressive media calling him ‘far-right.’ Instead, Dugin searches through the ruins of history to put together pieces of something new.” (08/10/26)
- Unhappy Anniversary
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Ron Paul“This month marks 55 years since President Richard Nixon closed the ‘gold window,’ severing the last link between the US dollar and gold. Under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement, foreign countries pegged their currencies to the US dollar, which was then pegged to a fixed value of gold. Foreign countries could exchange their dollars for gold at a rate of 35 dollars per ounce. … Closing the gold window left the US with a pure fiat currency. The results have been disastrous. The dollar has lost over 97 percent of its purchasing power since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, with most of the dollar’s decline occurring since 1971.” (08/10/26)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/unhappy-anniversary
- America vs. the MAGA-Industrial Complex
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jason Jones“Have you seen the ruling classes’ latest ploy for holding onto power rather than allow the public to hold them accountable through straightforward and honest elections? It’s clear as day to anyone with eyes to see. And the fact that the powerful now operate as much within the ‘MAGA’ brand as in the Democratic establishment shouldn’t blind us. If we let it, then even some of the best of us will soon be taken in – becoming useful idiots for the same ruling classes that the MAGA movement was founded to oppose. I’m referring to the new game of stirring up hatred against our neighbors of Middle-Eastern and Eastern heritage and labeling all dissenters against U.S.- and Israeli-led wars and war crimes as ‘radicals’ and ‘communists.'” (08/10/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/jason_jones/2026/08/09/america-vs-the-maga-industrial-complex/
- The tactic of AOC and her allies to giggle away the “craziness” of Woke-era abuses should not be tolerated
Source: Glenn Greenwald
by Glenn Greenwald“Many Democratic Party candidates emerging on what one might call the populist left are finding success in primaries across the country. But most of them have a shared liability: they were fully on board with the worst excesses and abuses of the ‘peak wokeness’ that emerged in the wake of George Floyd’s 2020 killing, enduring and contaminating most of our institutions for several years after. … AOC, who herself aggressively advocated those policies, sought to laughingly dismiss this all as just some momentary, harmless frenzy of ‘craziness’ that never really meant much and that everyone has all just agreed to move beyond …. It is, I suppose, a net positive that those who imposed extremist woke dogma are now too embarrassed to defend it. … But when AOC tries to giggle her way out of her behavior and the behavior of her allies, it actually is more offensive and cowardly than anything else.” (08/10/26)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-tactic-of-aoc-and-her-allies
- Democrats no longer have the No. 1 weapon to keep their socialist wing in line
Source: Fox News
by Tom Del Beccaro“American politics is an ever-changing game of power and big money. For the modern Democrat Party, that means being challenged and sometimes eclipsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) – and there is little to nothing the Democrat Party can do about its rise. The United States has had many political parties in its history. They include everything from the Federalists (1789) and the Whig Party (1830) to the Libertarian Party (1971) and the Green Party (2001). The current Democrat Party (1828) is the longest reigning major political party in American history. The role of the many lesser-known parties in American history has been to chasten the then-dominant parties and/or to champion particular issues – such as the Greenback Party (1874), which fought for paper money in the late 1800s. While that Greenback Party is no more, paper money has replaced gold as the dominant American currency.” (08/10/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-no-longer-have-no-1-weapon-keep-their-socialist-wing-line
- D’ye mean people queue for below market price items?
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall“Isn’t this a shock to everything we know about human nature? ‘In a speech on June 29, delivered before he won the Labour leadership unopposed, Burnham connected the loss of 1.5 million council homes with the increase, to a similar number, of families on the waiting list for social housing. Many, he said, had waited more than 10 years for a home.’ A council house is substantially cheaper – to the tenant – than any other form of housing. People are willing to queue for 10 years to gain something below market price, are they? Isn’t that a shock to everything we know about humans. They’ll be predicting queues at the start of the New Year sales next.” (08/10/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/dye-mean-people-queue-for-below-market-price-items
- Who Shot Ricky Pearsall? California’s Pro-Crime Policies Hide the Truth
Source: Independent Institute
by K Lloyd Billingsley“Who shot 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall in 2024? No one knows, because California’s insane criminal justice system has kept the suspect’s identity under wraps. … Pearsall, the 31st pick in the 2024 NFL draft, was shopping in San Francisco’s Union Square when a thief approached and demanded his watch. Pearsall would not give it up. In the ensuing struggle, the 49ers’ top draft pick took a bullet in the chest. Miraculously enough, the bullet missed vital organs. Pearsall survived the attack in stable condition. … Meanwhile, the suspect himself remained something of a mystery. One report described him as a boy of 17, an age that brought labels such as ‘teen’ and ‘juvenile.'” (08/10/26)
- Trump: The Empire-First President
Source: Foreign Policy In Focus
by Edward Hunt“The Trump administration marked the 250th anniversary of US independence with a series of statements in support of American empire. Despite the fact that President Donald Trump campaigned against endless war and the White House issued a National Security Strategy that rejected ‘global domination’, the Trump administration celebrated the nation’s 250th anniversary by glorifying empire as one of the country’s highest achievements. Administration officials praised moments in US history when US leaders embraced empire, such as when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams spoke in favor of an ’empire of liberty’ and Theodore Roosevelt acted to take Panama. At a time when many people in the country were reflecting on the ideals of liberty and equality that Jefferson had emphasized in the Declaration of Independence, the Trump administration glorified the country’s imperial history, creating a rationale for Empire First.” (08/10/26)
- Abolish London’s fun police
Source: spiked
by Lucy Rogers“Few familiar with Westminster City Council will be surprised by its draft proposal to refuse licenses for new pubs and nightclubs unless they ban standing up while having a pint – an activity it calls ‘vertical drinking’. After all, when it comes to petty killjoy regulations, this council has form. Take its attitude to takeaway pizza. … Westminster council have found a way to spoil even this in Soho. The pizza restaurant ICCO on Greek Street has a limitation on its licence that dictates it may not sell pizza for takeaway after 11pm. … Like other restrictions on venues operating in Soho, the reason cited by the council for this strange ban is the dreaded ‘cumulative impact assessment’ (CIA).” (08/10/26)
- Behind Francesca Hong’s flighty campaign a hateful movement, landing on the right ears
Source: New York Post
by Isaac Schorr“‘We need more witch poems written by fabulous asians.’ ‘We need more algorithms written by immigrant trans folk.’ ‘We need more supreme court decisions written by activist p.o.c. [people of color].’ ‘We need more speculative fiction written by indigenous latinx.’ In a Sheboygan, Wis. café, a series of posters assert as much before following up with a haunting question: ‘What are you doing to help make that happen?’ On Saturday night, attendees of an event hosted by the establishment could answer with their chin up: they’re going to elect Francesca Hong governor. A democratic socialist member of the state Assembly and the prohibitive favorite to succeed Gov. Tony Evers as the Democratic nominee for his office come Tuesday, Hong has featured in headlines for all of the wrong reasons over the last few weeks. In a much-maligned November 2020 tweet, she called on officials to ‘Cancel Thanksgiving’.” (08/09/26)
- One Degree of Separation: Somali Fraud Edition
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“The ongoing unraveling of fraud in the federal government’s welfare system, particularly involving medical subsidies, has gotten politically even more interesting. The egregious Ilhan Omar, Somalian America-hater and U.S. Representative from Minnesota, is now implicated. Well, at least one member of her family is under investigation.” (08/10/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/08/09/one-degree-of-separation-somali-fraud-edition/
- Why Oil Keeps Getting More Abundant
Source: The Daily Economy
by Gale Pooley“Oil deposits may be finite, but human knowledge is not. Freedom, innovation, and entrepreneurship continually transform our use of resources.” (08/10/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/why-oil-keeps-getting-more-abundant/
- Organized People Can Still Beat Your Big Money
Source: Our Future
by Sulma Arias“Every time I hear about the insane amounts of money billionaires like Elon Musk and dark-money super PACs pour into our elections to crush grassroots candidates, it’s hard not to feel our democracy is broken beyond repair. But then I hear about the victory, against all odds, of someone like Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who the voters of Michigan just chose as their Democratic candidate for Senate. Dr. El-Sayed is a physician and Rhodes Scholar, born and raised in Michigan, who ran the Detroit Health Department and just defeated a massive dark-money primary campaign against him, the largest in American history. Out-of-state groups spent nearly $70 million to crush his campaign, spreading divisive lies and outspending him by more than ten to one. And yet despite all of the lies big money could buy, El-Sayed won.” (08/10/26)
https://ourfuture.org/20260809/organized-people-can-still-beat-your-big-money
- “But Biden” excuses are just admissions Trump has failed
Source: The Hill
by Joslin Joseph“It is now August 2026. More than 560 days have passed since Trump took office again. He has attained more power, surrounded himself with yes-men, has a Republican House and Senate, a 6-3 tilt on the Supreme Court, and no excuse to fail. But here we are, with Trump polling in Biden territory and trying to convince Americans that things are going great. And yet, when pressed, Trump and company keep defaulting to how bad things were under Biden. … We have all dealt with kids that haven’t learned how to take responsibility for their actions. There is always someone else to blame because they believe that their parents, teachers or other adults will believe them.” (08/10/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/6018967-trump-fails-accountability/
- The Socialists’ Institutionalism — Tried and Failed
Source: Law & Liberty
by Aaron Kushner“Calls to ‘democratize’ the US Constitution seem shortsighted in the face of the early republic’s failed experiments with unicameralism.” (08/10/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-socialists-institutionalism-tried-and-failed/
- Reason Roundtable, 08/10/26
Source: Reason
“Are Socialists Actually Leaving Wokeness Behind?” (08/10/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/08/10/are-socialists-actually-leaving-wokeness-behind/
- Rising, 08/10/26
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on podcaster Scott Galloway suggesting that young men should be required to sign up for national service.” (08/10/26)
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 08/10/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Will Hegseth Get His $1.5 Trillion For ‘Defense’?” (08/10/26)
- Zooming In, 08/10/26
Source: The UnPopulist
“Is Trump’s Populist Coalition Shrinking?” (08/10/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/is-trumps-populist-coalition-shrinking